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Adam_G
Adam_G

Reputation: 7879

Find substring between two strings

I have a string such as:
file = "UserTemplate324.txt"

I'd like to extract "324". How can I do this without any external libraries like Apache StringUtils?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (2)

Bohemian
Bohemian

Reputation: 424973

Assuming you want "the digits just before the dot":

String number = str.replaceAll(".*?(\\d+)\\..*", "$1");

This uses regex to find and capture the digits and replace the entire input with them.

Of minor note is the use of a non-greedy quantifier to consume the minimum leading input (so as not to consume the leading part of the numbers too).

Upvotes: 3

assylias
assylias

Reputation: 328568

If you want to exclude the non-digit characters:

String number = file.replaceAll("\\D+", "");

\\D+ means a series of one or more non digit (0-9) characters and you replace any such series by "" i.e. nothing, which leaves the digits only.

Upvotes: 2

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